Nekima Levy-Pounds

Nekima Levy-Pounds (27 June 1976-) was President of the Minneapolis NAACP from 2015, succeeding Jerry McAfee.

Biography
Nekima Levy-Pounds was born on 27 June 1976 in Jackson, Mississippi, but she later attended school in Massachusetts and studied in California and Illinois in college. In 2003, she moved to Minnesota, and she became an associate professor at the University of St. Thomas, and in December 2014 she took part in a Black Lives Matter protest. Levy-Pounds was elected President of the Minneapolis NAACP in 2015, and she was one of the most important African-American rights leaders in the United States.